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From: lmc@denelcor.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang.celts,net.general
Subject: Stonehenge and the Celts?
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Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 12:38:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  9 12:38:02 1984
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Stonehenge was developed through its various stages between the years
2700BC and 1500BC.  At the time that Stonehenge achieved its final form
(known as Stonehenge IV) all Megalithic work in England and Western Europe
stopped (all about 1500BC).  The people who did the work underwent a
culture shift brought about by either invasion or changing environment, and
became the Beaker people and/or the Battle Axe culture.  The proto-Celts
*invaded* the megalithic areas at about 800BC from Central Europe.  To
them, the megalithic works of the previous inhabitants were as mysterious
as they were to our own ancestors.  As one author in the field has written,
"The Celts were unlikely to perform the tremendous cooperative work
required to build megalithic monuments; they more likely invested their
time in hill-forts."


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		Lyle McElhaney
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